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In this 180+ page report, you'll find all the information and support you need to build a profitable, effective CX Improvement Program that spans every part of your business. You'll be able to implement and manage meaningful and profitable change, and grow your bottom line despite a slowing economy.

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Voice of the Customer strategy trends for 2011

Through a study and analysis of nearly 30 ongoing market trends identified by six different research sources, Vovici has identified the seven main trends that will govern the effectiveness of Voice of the Customer initiatives over the coming year, in order to help companies create a customer-centric culture that directly improves satisfaction, loyalty and profitability. These trends are:

1. Social Media
   Five of the six sources explicitly mentioned social media, but it is clear that most organisations took baby steps in 2010 in their experimentation with social media. For 2011, major brands are turning to social media as an authentic and extensive source of the Voice of the Customer.
2. Text Analysis
   Four of the six sources mention that the high-volume of social media content is leading many firms to text analysis, which provides an excellent method of analysing the unstructured feedback gathered by Voice of the Customer listening posts.
3. Employee Engagement
   Employee engagement is an important part of customer loyalty, and many organisations are looking at ways to bring the Voice of the Employee into the Voice of the Customer, leveraging the observations and insights of employees when building a better understanding of the customer.
4. Employee-Specific Reports
   Publishing filtered customer feedback to the hands of front-line employees, to supervisors and midlevel managers, helps employees learn from their specific customers. Nothing prompts change better.
5. Closed Loop Feedback
   Half the sources discussed the need to build closed-loop processes that gather feedback, act on it, track it, trend it and repeat. A great part of this is case management, where feedback that indicates dissatisfaction is immediately escalated to service and support organisations, so that individuals can take action to directly improve satisfaction.
6. Feedback Consolidation
   Most organisations have very decentralised approaches to the collection and analysis of Voice of the Customer data. Large companies are creating or expanding their central Customer Insight departments and are looking to CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) and Mobile Device Management (MDM) to centrally manage the data.
7. Mobile Feedback
   The rise of mobile feedback is the ability to capture the customer's opinion as close to the customer experience as possible: at the point of moment where a decision has been made, a produce purchased or a service experienced. It enables organisations to reach consumers as they go about their daily life, rather than when they are at home on the phone or in front of their computer.

"With loyalty being built upon consistent, repeated, successful interactions, the goal now is to leave no interaction to chance and provide closed-loop feedback to measure the pulse of the customer," concluded Jeffrey Henning, Vovici's founder and vice president of strategy.

Have you seen The Customer Experience Factbook?

In this 180+ page report, you'll find all the information and support you need to build a profitable, effective CX Improvement Program that spans every part of your business.

You'll be able to implement and manage meaningful and profitable change, and grow your bottom line despite a slowing economy. Grab this goldmine of easily adaptable and up-to-date strategies, walk-throughs, trends, technologies, research, suppliers and partners, plus all the supporting arguments you need to build a solid CX strategy.

While most marketers could list maybe a dozen key points for improving their brand's Customer Experience (CX), the researchers and writers at The Marketing Factbook have identified FORTY main 'CX Keys' which will help you drive your customers to new levels of delight, loyalty, advocacy and profitability.

The areas in which customers have direct contact with your organization are perhaps the most obvious places in which CX improvements can be made, and this report addresses all 24 of these 'Direct CX Keys', applicable to offline and online businesses alike.

At the same time there are many other areas that indirectly affect CX (such as the supply chain, policies and processes) in which every business can make simple but far-reaching improvements. This report guides you through the problems and solutions for all 16 of these 'Indirect CX Keys', many of which are often forgotten or under-played even in the best CX strategies.

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